What Should You Do? Bone Loss Around Implants and Screw Loosening – GF014

Today we pick up where we left off on the 1st part of Group Function Episode 13 “Can I Probe This Implant?” In this episode I asked Dr Pav Khaira about bone loss around implants – what is normal and when should I worry? Another very interesting and controversial issue we tackled is how to manage implant screw loosening as a GDP?

https://youtu.be/C1Y_AdDhLzU

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“If every single year you’re losing one millimeter (of bone) that’s obviously an issue and we need to intervene and do something,” Dr Pav Khaira

In this episode we discussed:

• Normal bone loss for average implants 1:53
• Guidelines for GDPs managing loose implant screws 5:03
• Universal Implant Drivers? 10:45

If you liked this episode, be sure to check out the first part of this series Can I Probe This Implant?